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Bruce Stoffmacher taught K-5 classes in the South-Central region of Los Angeles in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 12 years. During this time, he was both inspired by the his students' boundless creativity and honesty, and daunted by the endemic socioeconomics of the impoverished region as well as the mismanagement of the LAUSD. He has returned to the ivory tower for a Masters in Public Policy at UCLA where he is studying both education and renewable energy policy. Bruce is married to Camille Landau, with whom they have one son and another on they way. Bruce is currently interning at the Oregon Legislative Fiscal Office. Bruce's other interests involve cooking, foreign languages, and Flamenco dancing.

For almost 40 years Alan E. Pisarski has been involved in the national transportation policy scene, from vantage points at the original Tri-State Transportation Commission in New York, the Metropolitan Washington COG, the Office of the Secretary, U.S. DOT, or in a personal consulting capacity. In his work he has measured the transportation activities of our nation from the metropolitan, state, national and international levels. In the U.S. DOT he organized the major travel surveys of the nation and designed and managed the U.S. transportation statistical system under the Assistant Secretary for Policy, establishing programs that are still the basis of much of the U.S. transportation statistical system today.

Ali Modarres is the Director of Urban Studies at University of Washington Tacoma. He is a geographer and landscape architect, specializing in urban planning and policy. He has written extensively about social geography, transportation planning, and urban development issues in American cities.